Subject: How to prevent pine from dialing out?

From: [email-masked] (Bill Cripe)
Date: 7 Jan 1997 18:57:46 GMT

I'm running on an SCO 3.0 system, which attempts to make ppp connections
on demand. If my machine is not connected to the Internet and someone
wants to read their mail or compose new mail they have to wait for pine
to connect before they can begin. If the connection fails the person
can't use pine at all.
   It seems that there must be a way to suppress this attempt to connect
to the Internet, but I haven't found it. Setting my mail server to
localhost looked like it ought to work, but didn't.
   What is it that pine is trying to do that makes it connect to the
Internet at startup rather than waiting for new outgoing mail to be
launched? My system pulls e-mail to it via POP3, so there is no need
for pine to be looking for new mail. 

Thanks for the help,
Bill Cripe

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Black)
Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:57:37 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...
>localhost looked like it ought to work, but didn't.

The best way to surpess this action is by deleting your PINE binary.

>for pine to be looking for new mail. 

Upon sending, PINE calls sendmail to process a message.  Your system
should contain a file /etc/sendmail.cf indicating which host is the
SMTP gateway.  When PINE passes it an outgoing message, sendmail will
forward that message to the SMTP gateway by initiating a TCP connection.
If your gateway is set to localhost, then sendmail will establish
a direct connection with the recipient's mail server. In order to 
establish a TCP connection, you need to establish a link to the Internet.

If you want Internet mail capabilities, your system needs a connection
to the Internet.

Hope this helps.

--matt